Happy Birthday Age of Empires: Definitive Edition!

Jennifer Godwin

February 20, 2019

When we launched Age of Empires: Definitive Edition last year, we described it as a love letter to the gamers who’ve made this legendary RTS franchise what it is today. Well, it’s our one-year launch anniversary on Feb. 20, so we decided another love letter is in order with a major update to the game!

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Update 8 is currently in the works! It will be released soon, and will include some of the community’s most-requested features, including automatic farm reseeding, mixed unit queues, dead unit decay, and more! The full patch notes are below!

Without further ado, here are the patch notes that you can expect for Age DE Update 8:

Features:

Automatic Farm Reseed – New Option in the Granary

Mixed unit Queues – Players can now train different units at the same time from buildings

Mixed tech Queues – Players can now queue units and techs at the same time from buildings

AI should no longer get stuck in the Stone Age under certain circumstances

AI can now hunt Elephants

AI Scouts are less prone to killing themselves to hazards

AI units pick their targets better

General AI build orders/strategies have been updated to be more efficient

Bugfixes:

Fixed various crashes at game end

Destroyed buildings disappear much faster

That’s it for now! Remember to follow us on social media at /ageofempires for all the latest updates!

Discuss of 65 comments

plewinlonMarch 20, 2019

good!

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vijeetgvMarch 20, 2019

When is it coming?

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chesqinMarch 21, 2019

It has been updated already. :)

vijeetgvMarch 16, 2019

Automatic Farm Reseed & Mixed unit Queues would be great.

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graves1971March 13, 2019

Please fix the AI. New campaigns and scenarios won't matter if the AI is not fixed.

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vitcor-galloMarch 13, 2019

Nothing announced in today's Inside Xbox !!! Where is AoE 4 ???? If it's gonna be delayed just say "wait for it Feb 22th 2023"... or something like that... We don't like being ignored...

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bfranxMarch 13, 2019

Will there ever be a Steam release?

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vitcor-galloMarch 13, 2019

UP !!! It's n.e.e.d.e.d. !!!

desanderesMarch 12, 2019

All I really care for are new Campaignes. NEW CAMPAIGNES!
I want Celts as well as more Romans, more Greeks, more Babylonians, more Egyptians and so on.
I will pay for a Add-On with new Campaignes. But AoE always was a Singleplayer game for me. And AoE II HD is already my Multiplayer game. So I want more SP Content.
I WANT NEW CAMPAIGNES

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xeno-auraMarch 12, 2019

Yeah, to echo other comments, the AI is completely non-functioning now.

Played 2 3vs2 games online against 2 AI set to "Hard" difficulty, after 30 minutes, 1 AI had 6 villagers, the other AI had 17 villagers, the one with 6 was still in Tool Age, the other had made it to Iron, but had mainly tool/bronze age units. Seems like their priorities are all wrong, they build tonnes of houses and storage pits all over the place, but never build up the villagers to use any of it, and their economy is so poor that they can't build a decent army.

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westerncoldskyMarch 12, 2019

When this was published originally, there was mention of AoE being featured on Inside Xbox, scheduled for today. However, the mention has been removed - what happened?

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westerncoldskyMarch 12, 2019

No mention in the stream, and nothing I can find either here or any of the other Xbox news outlets. Not sure if the community manager can comment on the mention that was redacted?

vobishaendlerMarch 12, 2019

The stream just ended, there was no information regarding AOE :(

walkaiser5079March 11, 2019

BIG BUG in multiplayer
The Ai has become super easy on every difficulty setting
Please fix
Other changes great